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CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS:

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To celebrate the fifth anniversary of Levantine Cultural Center in Los
Angeles, 
http://www.levantinecenter.org/
the editor seeks contributions of creative nonfiction (essay, travel,
first-person narrative), short stories, poetry, one-act plays, art and
photography for Iconoclasts and Visionaries, a Levantine anthology. Maximum
word length for nonfiction, short stories and one-act plays is 3,000 words.
Poetry, submit a maximum of three poems of any length. Art/photography,
submit up to five images in low-res jpg format for previewing.

All manuscripts submitted by September 30, 2006 will be considered.
Unpublished submissions are preferred, but previously published work will be
considered. Contributors will receive three copies of the book upon
publication and an honorarium.

Submit manuscripts and visual work to jordane at levantinecenter.org or via
snail mail to Levantine Center, 8424A Santa Monica Blvd., N. 789, West
Hollywood CA 90069.

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CL Newsletter | A Book for SF, Maureen Webb on Security, & 3 New Books on
Mexico

CITY LIGHTS NEWSLETTER

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NEWS FROM CITY LIGHTS BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS
http://www.citylights.com or see us at
http://www.myspace.com/citylightsbooks
September 6, 2006

* ONE CITY ONE BOOK: SAN FRANCISCO READS
* INTERVIEW WITH MAUREEN WEBB, AUTHOR OF ³ILLUSIONS OF SECURITY²
* EVENTS AT THE BOOKSTORE
* EVENTS AROUND TOWN
* 3 INDIE PRESSES, 3 NEW BOOKS, 2 MEXICANS, 1 REVOLUTION
* CINDY SHEEHAN'S CAMP CASEY MOVES FROM TEXAS TO D.C.
* RECOMMENDED READS
* BOOKSTORE BESTSELLERS
* NEWS ABOUT CITY LIGHTS BOOKS
* CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS

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ONE CITY ONE BOOK: SAN FRANCISCO READS

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What if all San Franciscans read the same book at the same time?

City Lights is proud to co-sponsor the San Francisco Public Library¹s
citywide book club, One City One Book: San Francisco Reads. This year, the
selection is The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea. Set in Mexico
in the decades before the 1910 revolution, The Hummingbird's Daughter tells
the story of Teresita, a young girl coming to terms with her destiny as a
healer who will grow into a revolution-inspiring Mexican "Joan of Arc." This
engaging book is a recent winner of the 2006 Kiriyama Prize for fiction and
was selected as one of 2005's best books by the San Francisco Chronicle.

Make The Hummingbird's Daughter your book club's next selection or join one
of the many book discussions and special author events taking place at
libraries and bookstores this fall.

Visit http://sfpl.org/news/ocob/onecity.htm for more information

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INTERVIEW WITH MAUREEN WEBB, AUTHOR OF ³ILLUSIONS OF SECURITY²

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Maureen Webb is a human rights lawyer and activist. She has spoken
extensively on post-September 11 security and human rights issues, most
recently testifying before the House and Senate Committees reviewing the
Canadian Anti-terrorism Act. In 2001, Webb was a Fellow at the Human Rights
Institute at Columbia University in New York. She is also the Coordinator
for Security and Human Rights issues for Lawyers¹ Rights Watch Canada. In
November, City Lights will publish her new book, Illusions of Security.

Q: In the West, we¹ve had the 9-11 attacks, the Madrid bombing, the London
bombings and the recent plot which almost blew up 10 planes with hundreds of
people on them -- as well as other planned attacks, like those in Canada,
which have been averted. Are you saying authorities don¹t need better
surveillance powers? Haven¹t they been doing a good job recently with the
new powers they have?

A: They don¹t need many of the new powers they¹ve been given and they don¹t
need the kind of globalized, mass surveillance programs that I write about
in the book. Success in the recent alleged plot in the U.K. appears to have
been made through good old ordinary police work . . . .

Read more of this interview at http://citylights.com/pub/inter.webb.html
Read more about Webb¹s new book from City Lights, Illusions of Security, at
http://citylights.com/CLpub4th.html#4766

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EVENTS AT THE BOOKSTORE

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Wednesday, September 13th, 7 pm
Ben Fountain reads from his new release Brief Encounters With Che Guevara
(Stories), published by Ecco Press. This event is produced in conjunction
with American Zoetrope Magazine. Editor Michael Ray will introduce Ben
Fountain.

Thursday, September 14th, 7 pm
Ben Ehrenreich reads from The Suitors, published by Counterpoint Press. Joe
Loya, author of The Man Who Outgrew His Prison Cell, will introduce.

Thursday, September 21st, 7 pm
Celebrate the release of South of the Pumphouse by Les Claypool and
Artificial Light by James Greer, both published by Akashic Books

Saturday, September 23rd, 11:30 am
A Children¹s Book Party for A Place Where Sunflowers Grow, written by Amy
Lee-Tai & illustrated by Felicia Hoshino, published by Children¹s Book Press

Wednesday, September 27th, 7 pm
Stuart Ewen discussing Typecasting, published by 7 Stories Press

Thursday, September 28th, 6:30 pm
Book release party for ParaSpheres: Extending Beyond the Spheres of Literary
and Genre Fiction - Fabulist and New Wave Fabulist Stories, published by
Omnidawn Press. Reading from their work will be: Charlie Anders, Rikki
Ducornet, Laura Moriarty, Rudy Rucker, Stephen Shugart, Mark Wallace &
William Luvaas
MCs: Rusty Morrison & Ken Keegan

Remember, you can always sign up for weekly City Lights events reminder
emails at http://visitor.constantcontact.com/optin.jsp?m=1011225418336&ea=
For more information on these and future events, see
http://www.citylights.com/events.html
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EVENTS AROUND TOWN

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THE SAN FRANCISCO ZINE FEST

San Francisco Zine Fest will be taking place Sept. 9th + 10th, 2006

After a short spell of uncertainty, the SFZF is back at CELLspace (2050
Bryant St, in the Mission). This year's show promises to be a lot of fun,
with workshops, film and animation screenings, and of course dozens of local
artists with everything from zines and mini-comics to hand-made apparel and
prints. As always, admission will be free!

Visit http://www.sfzinefest.com for more information.

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LARRY KEENAN AT MICAELA GALLERY
September 6 through September 30, 2006
Artist¹s Reception: Thursday, September 7, 2006, 4.30-8 pm

Larry Keenan is a world-renowned photographer and is considered a true
"Beat." Keenan's images are very powerful and extremely recognizable. His
photographs have graced hundreds of publications and he has shown his work
at The National Portrait Gallery, The Whitney Museum, The Walker Art Center,
and The Smithsonian Institution. The photo here is a selection from his
Counter-Culture Gallery. It is one in a series of photos Keenan took in 1969
in Los Altos Hills California called Generation Gap. This is just one of
many of Keenan¹s captivating and historical photographs on exhibition at
Micaela Gallery - 333 Hayes St. San Francisco, California USA from September
9, 2006 through September 30, 2006.

For further information see http://www.micaela.com
Micaela Gallery 333 Hayes Street, Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94102
See more of Larry's Prints at http://citylights.com/CLeph.html#prints

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BITCH MAGAZINE 10TH ANNIVERSARY GALA & AUCTION

Join Bitch for an evening of splendor as we host our 10th Anniversary Gala &
Auction! Local author and humorist Kirk Read hosts. Mingle with Mattilda,
aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore, Julia Serano, and Michelle Tea. And of course,
bid on fantastic items!

September 8, 6pm-8pm
The Women's Building
3543 18th St (between Guerrero and Valencia)
$15 advance tickets, $25 at the door

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3 INDIE PRESSES, 3 NEW BOOKS, 2 MEXICANS, 1 REVOLUTION

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€ A radical & surreal collaboration  The Uncomfortable Dead  uniting Paco
I Taibo¹s noir imagination with Marcos¹s one-world vision in a
groundbreaking new novel.

€ A reissue of a Paco I. Taibo II classic  The Shadow of the Shadow 
exploring issues of American imperialism and Mexican corruption.

€ A collection of texts by Subcomandante Marcos and his Zapatista compañeros
 The Other Campaign  articulating a vision for ³change from below.²

THE UNCOMFORTABLE DEAD by Paco I Taibo II & Subcomandante Marcos
³This isn¹t your ordinary left-wing noir satire cowritten by Mexico¹s most
famous crime novelist and the world¹s best-known revolutionary leader‹it¹s a
singular event in world literature.²  Neal Pollack
Available in September from Akashic Books
ISBN: 1933354070, Paperback, 268pp, $15.95, www.akashicbooks.com

THE SHADOW OF THE SHADOW by Paco I Taibo II
³This glorious novel reads as if James M. Cain and Dashiell Hammett had
collaborated with Gabriel Garcia Marquez on a version of The Three
Musketeers set in 1920¹s, post-revolutionary Mexico City.²  Publishers
Weekly
Available in October from Cinco Puntos Press.
ISBN: 1933693002, Paperback, 240pp, $13.95, www.cincopuntos.com

THE OTHER CAMPAIGN by Subcomandante Marcos
³Marcos is the voice for many voices. His words, fashioned from humor and
poetry, reveal the deep roots and abundant branches of the Zapatista
insurrection in Chiapas . . . that is transforming Mexico and is helping to
change the world.²  Eduardo Galeano
Available now from City Lights Books
ISBN: 0872864774, Paperback, 120pp, $8.95, www.citylights.com

See more articles on Subcomandante Marcos and the Zapatistas at:
http://citylights.com/pub/marcos.html
Read about Subcommandante Marcos¹ recent City Lights/ Open Media book, The
Other Campaign, at: http://citylights.com/CLpubRE.html#4774

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CINDY SHEEHAN'S CAMP CASEY TO MOVE FROM TEXAS

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On September 5, 2006, Cindy Sheehan will move her camp from Crawford Texas
to the nation's capital, and expand it into a weeks-long demonstration
against the war, for justice here at home, for environmental sanity, and for
accountability from the White House and Congress. Events will include panel
discussions with well-known speakers (Howard Zinn, Ann Wright, Marcus
Raskin, Barbara Olshansky, Michael Avery, Lennox Yearwood, Elizabeth de la
Vega, Ray McGovern, and many others), workshops, concerts, training
sessions, films and performances, hands-on creative arts projects, lobbying
training, nonviolence training, and other activities. The organizers'
intention is to provide every American who is fed up with our current
government a place to come and get involved in a movement for change. Daily
schedules of events, a volunteer system, and a rooms and rides board are on
the website http://www.campdemocracy.org

Camp Democracy will be located between the National Mall, Constitution
Avenue, 14th Street, and 15th Street on September 5, 6, 7, 8, and 12  21st,
and on the National Mall between 3rd Street and 7th Street on September 9,
10, and 11th.

While September 9 through 11 will include a wide variety of events, other
days will focus largely on single themes, including: Opening Day 9/5,
Organizing the Progressive Agenda 9/6, Immigrants' Rights 9/7, Labor Speaks
Out 9/8, Gandhi Day 9/11, Verdict on Bush's Crimes 9/13, Electoral Reform
9/15, Peace 9/16, Accountability and Impeachment 9/17, Lobbying Training
9/18, Lobbying 9/19, Women for Peace 9/20.

A detailed schedule is available at http://campdemocracy.org/schedule
Read more about Sheehan¹s new book from City Lights/ Open Media, Dear
President Bush, at http://citylights.com/CLpubRE.html#4545
See more articles by and about Cindy Sheehan at
http://citylights.com/pub/sheehan.html

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RECOMMENDED READS FROM THE CITY LIGHTS STAFF

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WINTER'S BONE
by Daniel Woodrell
Sixteen-year-old Ree Dolly has grown up in the harsh poverty of the Ozarks
and belongs to a large extended family. On a bitterly cold day, Ree, who
takes care of her two younger brothers, as well as her mother, learns that
her father has skipped bail. This book is the story of Ree¹s quest to bring
her father back, alive or dead.
Hardcover
$22.99
ISBN: 031605755X
Little, Brown & Co.
Picked by Lara

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WAITING TIL THE MIDNIGHT HOUR: A NARRATIVE HISTORY OF BLACK POWER IN AMERICA
by Peniel E. Joseph
A history of the Black Power movement, that storied group of men and women
who would become American icons of the struggle for racial equality. Peniel
E. Joseph traces the history of the men and women of the movement, many of
them famous or infamous, others forgotten.
Hardcover
$27.50
ISBN: 0805075399
Henry Holt & Co.
Picked by Paul

Read more about these titles and see more recommended reads at
http://www.citylights.com/CLREREZ.html

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CITY LIGHTS TOP 10 PAPERBACKS

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1. THE HISTORY OF LOVE by Nicole Krauss (W.W. Norton & Co.)
2. EVERYBODY INTO THE POOL by Beth Lisick (HarperCollins)
3. INDECISION by Benjamin Kunkel (Random House)
4. EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE by Jonathan Safran Foer (Houghton
Mifflin)
5. HELLO I¹M SPECIAL: HOW INDIVIDUALITY BECAME THE NEW CONFORMITY by Hal
Niedzviecki (City Lights)
6. DEAR PRESIDENT BUSH by Cindy Sheehan (City Lights)
7. PIRATES IN AN ADVENTURE WITH SCIENTISTS by Gideon Defoe (Knopf)
8. THANK YOU FOR SMOKING by Christopher Buckley (Modern Library)
9. VERONICA by Mary Gaitskill (Knopf)
10. HISTORY LESSONS: HOW TEXTBOOKS AROUND THE WORLD PORTRAY U.S. HISTORY by
Dana Lindaman & Kyle Ward (New Press)

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TOP 10 HARDCOVERS

1. A GUIDE TO PHILOSOPHY IN 6 HOURS by Witold Gombrowicz (Yale University
Press)
2. MISQUOTING JESUS: THE STORY BEHIND WHO CHANGED THE BIBLE AND WHY by Bart
Ehrman (Harper Collins)
3. THE BOOK OF LONGING by Leonard Cohen (HarperCollins)
4. RUSSIAN CRIMINAL TATTOO ENCYLOPEDIA VOL II by Danzig Baldaev (Distributed
Art Press)
5. FAILED STATES by Noam Chomsky (Henry Holt)
6. 2012: THE RETURN OF QUETZACOATL by Daniel Pinchbeck (Penguin Putnam)
7. THE OMNIVORE¹S DILEMMA: A NATURAL HISTORY IN FOUR MEALS by Michael Pollan
(Penguin)
8. ARMED MADHOUSE by Greg Palast (Penguin)
9. A LITTLE HISTORY OF THE WORLD by E.H. Gombrich (Yale University Press)
10. TIME WAS SOFT THERE: A PARIS SOJOURN AT SHAKESPEARE & CO. by Jeremy
Mercer (St. Martin¹s Press)

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NEWS ABOUT CITY LIGHTS BOOKS

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Forthcoming!

HOWL ON TRIAL: THE BATTLE FOR FREE EXPRESSION
Edited by Bill Morgan
Available November 2006
ISBN 0-87286-479-0
Paperback, 224 pp
$14.95 | Howl's 50th Anniversary
$10.47
http://citylights.com/CLpub4th.html#4790

The inside story of the publication and defense of Howl in correspondence,
documents and photographs.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Howl and Other Poems, with nearly
1,000,000 copies in print, City Lights presents the story of editing,
publishing, and defending the landmark poem within a broader context of
obscenity issues and censorship of literary works.

The collection includes:

* The complete ³The Howl Letters² ‹ correspondence between Allen Ginsberg,
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, John Hollander, Richard
Eberhart, Louis Ginsberg, and others  with first-person insight into
Ginsberg¹s thinking and the significance
of the poems to the author and his contemporaries.

* Ferlinghetti¹s account of hearing ³Howl² read at the Six Gallery, of
editing the book, and of his court battle to defend its publication.
* A timeline of censorship in the U.S. that places the Howl case in the
broader historical context of obscenity issues and censorship of literary
works.
* Newspaper reportage, magazine essays, cartoons, photographs, and letters
to the editor that illuminate the cultural climate of the mid-1950s, when
sexual expression in print was suppressed.
* Excerpts from the trial transcript that show the brilliant criminal lawyer
Jake Ehrlich in action.
* ACLU Defense Counsel Albert Bendich¹s reflections on the Howl case, and
his thoughts about challenges to Constitutionally guaranteed freedoms.
*A look at how the fight against censorship continues today in new forms.

Bill Morgan is the author of I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life
of Allen Ginsberg, The Beat Generation in San Francisco and The Beat
Generation in New York.

Nancy J. Peters is Publisher of City Lights Books.

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Also...

ILLUSIONS OF SECURITY: GLOBAL SURVEILLANCE AND DEMOCRACY IN THE POST-9/11
WORLD
By Maureen Webb
Available November 2006
ISBN 0-87286-476-6
Paperback, 304 pp
$16.95
$11.87
http://citylights.com/CLpub4th.html#4766

* Did you know that your government is watching you?
* That it buys personal data from private contractors and foreign
governments?
* That it collects this information to ³predict² whether you might be a
terrorist?
* That if you are singled out, no one may be able to help you?

In light of the recent terrorist threats at U.K and U.S. airports, this book
is a timely and provocative read about what governments should and should
not be doing to protect us from further terrorist attacks. It is a crucial
look at a little-examined aspect of the U.S.-led ³war on terror²  the move
toward the use of mass, globalized surveillance and a ³preemptive² model of
security, and its effects on democratic values and human rights around the
world.

³Maureen Webb pulls all the pieces together  special rendition, no fly
lists, biometric surveillance, warrant-less wire taps, torture  to create a
harrowing picture of post 9-11 state repression. This valuable guide makes
clear how dramatically civil liberties have been attacked in recent years.²
 Christian Parenti, author of The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in
Occupied Iraq, The Soft Cage, and Lockdown America

Maureen Webb is a Canadian human rights lawyer and activist. She was a
litigator for some of the first constitutional cases heard under Canada¹s
Charter of Rights and Freedoms, including the landmark freedom of
association case, Lavigne and a case challenging the powers of Canada¹s
newly instituted spy agency, CSIS. As Legal Counsel to the Canadian
Association of University Teachers, a member of the International Civil
Liberties Monitoring Group, she also sits as Co-Chair of ICLMG. She is also
the Coordinator for Security and Human Rights issues for Lawyers¹ Rights
Watch Canada. She has spoken extensively on post September 11 security and
human rights issues, most recently testifying before the House and Senate
Committees reviewing the Canadian Anti-terrorism Act. In 2001, she was a
Fellow at the Human Rights Institute at Columbia University in New York,
where she graduated suma cum laude.
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CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS:

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To celebrate the fifth anniversary of Levantine Cultural Center in Los
Angeles, the editor seeks contributions of creative nonfiction (essay,
travel, first-person narrative), short stories, poetry, one-act plays, art
and photography for Iconoclasts and Visionaries, a Levantine anthology.
Maximum word length for nonfiction, short stories and one-act plays is 3,000
words. Poetry, submit a maximum of three poems of any length.
Art/photography, submit up to five images in low-res jpg format for
previewing.

All manuscripts submitted by September 30, 2006 will be considered.
Unpublished submissions are preferred, but previously published work will be
considered. Contributors will receive three copies of the book upon
publication and an honorarium.

Submit manuscripts and visual work to jordane at levantinecenter.org or via
snail mail to Levantine Center, 8424A Santa Monica Blvd., N. 789, West
Hollywood CA 90069.

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Blithe House Quarterly, the leading journal of lesbian and gay literary
fiction, is pleased to open submissions for its Spring 2007 issue. For
guidelines on submission, please visit the site at http://www.blithe.com/.
Stories must be previously unpublished, fictional (as opposed to memoir),
and usually 1500-7500 words in length.

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Green Candy Press seeks well-written, sexy, funny, scary, creative first
person essay/erotic memoirs and stories about the convergence of books and
sexuality in the lives of gay men. Submissions should be between 6-25 typed,
double-spaced manuscript pages and available as Microsoft word documents.
These should be original works not previously anthologized in book format,
but may have appeared in print in magazines or on the Web. Contributors
whose pieces are accepted for publication will be paid $100 upon acceptance
of the complete ms by the publisher for nonexclusive anthology rights, and
will receive 2 copies of the finished book. Send to: Green Candy Press, 601
Van Ness Avenue, E3-918, San Francisco, CA 94102, attn. Kevin Bentley. Or
query e-mail to kevinbee at comcast.net. For more info, go to
http://www.greencandypress.com/submitbook.html

Also

Green Candy Press seeks beautifully written, provocative, honest,
emotionally revealing and insightful, funny, sad, bitter, and joyful memoirs
of growing up as or maintaining adult ties between gay men who are also
siblings. Submissions should be original and not previously published in
book format. Submissions should be between 6-25 typed, double-spaced
manuscript pages and available as Microsoft Word documents. For more info go
to http://greencandypress.com/submitbrother.html.

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